Close Call

Mommy Moments:

Q. climbs a chair and retrieves the fish food from the atop the entertainment center. She precedes to feed the fish. She thinks they are really hungry and need to grow big so she dumps the whole canister into the tank. Now the fish just need their bath after dinner. So she squirts some "Shout" in and now her chore is finished. She goes away very proud for this bit of helpfulness she has produced for mom and dad. She has second thoughts only after daddy comes in and finds her washing her own mouth in "Shout" and sees the one inch layer of fish food on the rock floor of the tank. Needless to say, daddy is very upset. And distraught.

Hurry! Call Poison control. Q. gets a piece of bread and some water--the bubbles eventually diminish. Mmmm...the tank water smells funny...OH my @*#...the algae eater is already unconcious and floating on his back...Get the fish out...QUICK. Where's a baggie? Now angelfish Gill is floating on his side...the horror of it! Should the gals leave this tramatic scene of eminent fish death? Uncle mentions that he never felt this affection for his fish and seems impressed. We prepare for the worst.

Somehow, by the grace of God, miraculously, our little friends make a full recovery after they are placed back in their newly cleaned, conditioned, and fortified-with-electrolyte water. A close call indeed.

During her nap Q. discovers she can reach the top drawer of Audi's clothes chest. Inside she finds a little tub of minty smelling jelly (Vicks Rub). She thinks this will be the perfect cure for her dry, frizzy hair that her mommy cursed her with from the beginning of her small life. Now that's some oil treatment! Oh! There's mom. She's not too happy with the way Q. smells. Maybe that's cuz mom only uses that minty jelly for when the gals are coughing. But Q.'s hair has become magnificently curly of late. Catch ya' later frizz head...

Okay one more:

Q. makes her daily tour around the house. This is the her private inventory of what has been mistakenly left out that mom and dad says is off limits. Today she finds mommy's make-up on the counter in mommy's bathroom. MMMmmm...mommy's dozing on the couch cuz the sun has just barely peaked over the horizon. A little lipliner on each cheek and some purple shadow there just beside it...definately need more lipliner and a little blush...oops the brush fell in the sink...oh well...Mommy's calling. Audi's up.

Q. put the lipliner everywhere except on her lips.

Long Time, No See

For anyone who has checked this blog in recent weeks: No. we are not forever lost. Yes. we are still alive, with technical difficulties.

We have been the household of the never-ending sickness. When i am tempted to feel sorry for us, i make an effort to remind myself that many have it worse and perhaps more permanently, than we do. hopefully we are on the mend and i will make this short post.

i also changed the look of my blog. more changes may still be in the near future. i was never really happy with the first one. i like this template better though b/c I can change the background colors too!

Quick recap: March 9-12 was spent in Kansas City...I attended Time out For Women on the saturday. we hung out with Supermans family the rest of the time. Note: Superman refers to hubby. he needed a blog nickname and if you know him personally you will understand this connection (hubby shares a common name with superman, for those of you who want in). Moving on.

March 14-current was spent convalescing. sorry no pics this time. i don't have the patience to sit here and wait for them to download over our "behind-the-times-but-better-than-nothin" internet connection. see ya.

Birthday Bash!

Happy Birthday to me! Even though i've tried to convince myself that birthday's shouldn't be celebrated after 21, after this one I think i might adopt hubby's idea that "the more excuses to celebrate the better".

Hubby took the lil' gals shopping and they picked a bunch a stuff. Then he had them each choose just one thing to give me. The mini Nemo cross-stitch is from Audi (pronounced owdi like the car) and the turtle craft is from GC (my 2yr old niece--i bbsit her twice a week). Q. misplaced her gift to me which was a dolphin suncatcher and the paints to paint it. Following her advice, I painted it purple, white, and green. She's sorta missin' it but it's in the "mommy bus" somewhere.

This picture represents my newest fave thing. Hubby was sweet, sweet, sweet when we went to Kohl's to pay my bill before our dinner reservation and he insisted that my old purse was disgusting and that i needed a new one...well...what he didn't know and found out was that my purse was "the purse". I have never bought a purse for myself. My mom bought the only one i've ever used which happened to be about...mmm...ninth grade or something. I can't recall exactly.

"The Purse" A Memoir

What i do know is that "the purse" was perfect. It was small, which i like, it had plenty of card space, a pocket for my check book, chapstick, and pen, and a place for my change. It a beautiful tan, genuine leather mom got me on a trip to Mexico--so it was affordable too which is necessary to my well being. So maybe it looks a little shabby now. But i coulda' washed it and nothing on it is even broken or ripped.

Hubby was positive he was making the right choice to persuade me even though he was with me and shopping's not his first choice of activities, especially with me (i'm excessively picky and time consuming).

Tada! I chose this new one in record time and a wallet to match and to make things really exciting there was a Sale. Buy One Handbag/Accessory Get One Free. My fave thing about it, is how soft it is. I glowed the rest of the night. And that was before eating the most entertaining dinner in my life.

We went to a place called Sho Guns Japanese Steak House. It was SOOOOoooooo Cool. We sat with three other couples we didn't know and chose between steak, chicken, or shrimp or some combination thereof. I had fillet mignon and shrimp. But first we got some kind of beef and onion broth then a salad with yummy homemade sweet n' tangy dressing. Then the chef came over (because the table is mostly a huge, flat frying pan) and stacked some raw onion rings up, squirted some oil in, and lit in ON FIRE! There was a three foot high flame on our table!

And the chef had all kinds of moves too. He flipped, chopped, tossed, and juggled his knives and steak fork--he even spun the eggs around on his flat chopping knife, tossed the egg up, and VOILA! cracked it open on the edge of the knife.

The vegetables were cooked fresh right there, the sauces (ginger for veggies and shrimp and spicy mustard for meat) were excellent, and we were served green tea (declined that) and sherbet for dessert. These Japanese know how to do a meal!

Got leftovers? These are wrapped in foil packages shaped by hand to look like a dragon!...sigh...It was definately a birthday worth remembering...

Except maybe those Mrs. Field's cookies i made that hubby said were the best ever and then i burned half of them!!!!hmph! Life's not perfect but it can't hurt tryin' can it?

Incomplete Sentences

Funny Hairdo Day!

(i wish the resolution on these downloaded pics was better)

Been busy. Have'nt posted in a week so gotta make a quick one. Consigned to my first "Just Between Friends". More info. http://www.jbfsale.com.

Mommy moments:

Q. plays hairdresser to her cousin--thankfully the kid still has most of her hair left. The chop isn't obvious unless pointed out...

The set-up--Kitchen sink full of tepid water and defrosting turkey (still in pkg.); Q. on chair next to sink dipping in scrub brush (the one used for dirty dishes) and sucking the water off (Yum-Yum!) Actually happened on daddy duty. So far no ill effects.

Q. decides to help herself to the green beans at a dinner party we put on. She climbs to the table, leans to middle, loads up the serving spoon, takes the bite...we have a limited supply of utensils but we survived...

Q. is Incredible! Q.uite the personality...